Piatra-Neamt

Presentation of the school

Meeting in Romania

7-11 May 2018

When I found out that children
from other countries were coming over to Romania, I was very excited. And I
nearly started jumping up and down when I found out that a girl from a foreign
country was staying at my house. The day the kids and teachers from Italy came
I was at the airport waiting “patiently”. Actually I was pacing back and forth
in front of the arrival gate. After 15 long minutes the gates opened and people
were coming out, but I couldn’t see the people that came from Italy. They came
out last. And I ran over to meet the girl who was staying over at my house. She
was really nice and we got along were well. We hoped in the car along with my
mom and headed home. When we got home she unpacked her things and then I showed
some of the things around our small, but warm and welcoming city.

I showed a lot of the natural
life of Piatra-Neamţ as well as the city life. She really liked it. She was
mostly impressed about the fact that the city is surrounded by mountains.

The day we went to school to
participate in the activities prepared by our teachers I met a whole lot of
other people. All the children from Portugal, Italy and Spain had so much
energy and were eager to show us some traditional games from their homelands as
well as teaching us some words in their mother tongues, but there wasn’t so
much time. A week seemed so little time compared to the amount of things of
things that we wanted to learn about and the things that we wanted to show
them.

They were all more than eager to
learn words in Romanian too and games of our homeland. Even the teachers were
open to learning basic phrases in Romanian even though the pronunciation was
quite hard. I was even more impressed when they played along with us.

We all had so much fun. I can
still recall the smiles and laughter that were plastered and coming out of the
kids faces. And I’m really glad that I got the chance to learn and discover the
cultures of other countries. It was a very pleasant experience and I made lots
of memories and friends that I’ll remember for many years from now on. I hope
to meet everybody again and create new memories and I really hope that more
projects like this happen in the following years so that other kids can
experience this.